Bohumil Hrabal's book I Served the King of England is among the pinnacles of his body of work. Mirrored in the fate of a young Czech waiter's life are the hopes, conflicts, dramas, and defeats of Czechoslovak history in the last century. Based on that book, director Jiří Menzel presents a film about a man in the twilight of his life seeking images of the era he has lived through. About a man who yearned to fill his life with wealth and beauty no matter what the circumstances, a man whose luck always lay in his encountering some misfortune.

Cast / Martin Huba , Milan Lasica , Ivan Barnev , Marián Labuda , Josef Abrhám , Oldřich Kaiser , Julia Jentsch    Writer / Jiří Menzel    Story / Bohumil Hrabal    DoP / Jaromír Šofr    Editor / Jiří Brožek    Sound / Radim Hladík jr.

Release date / 19 December 2006

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